Cannot start Gatein Portal with MySQL in UTF-8 ---------------------------------------------- Key: GTNPORTAL-3517 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/GTNPORTAL-3517 Project: GateIn Portal Issue Type: Task Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Affects Versions: 3.5.10.Final Reporter: Tran Trung Thanh Fix For: 3.9.0.Final If we want to use Gatein Portal in UTF-8 mode with MySQL, even if we configure the dialect to mysql-utf8, we get issues of type: {code} Caused by: org.jboss.cache.CacheException: Unable to start cache loaders at org.jboss.cache.loader.CacheLoaderManager.startCacheLoader(CacheLoaderManager.java:470) ~[jbosscache-core-3.2.7.GA.jar:3.2.7.GA] ... 81 common frames omitted Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) ~[na:1.6.0_45] at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) ~[na:1.6.0_45] at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) ~[na:1.6.0_45] at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) ~[na:1.6.0_45] at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.19.jar:na] at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.getInstance(Util.java:386) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.19.jar:na] at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1052) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.19.jar:na] at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:4098) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.19.jar:na] at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:4030) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.19.jar:na] at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:2490) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.19.jar:na] at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2651) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.19.jar:na] at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2671) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.19.jar:na] at com.mysql.jdbc.StatementImpl.executeUpdate(StatementImpl.java:1749) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.19.jar:na] at com.mysql.jdbc.StatementImpl.executeUpdate(StatementImpl.java:1666) ~[mysql-connector-java-5.1.19.jar:na] at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.DelegatingStatement.executeUpdate(DelegatingStatement.java:228) ~[tomcat-dbcp.jar:7.0.42] at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.DelegatingStatement.executeUpdate(DelegatingStatement.java:228) ~[tomcat-dbcp.jar:7.0.42] at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.DelegatingStatement.executeUpdate(DelegatingStatement.java:228) ~[tomcat-dbcp.jar:7.0.42] at org.jboss.cache.loader.AdjListJDBCCacheLoader.start(AdjListJDBCCacheLoader.java:300) ~[jbosscache-core-3.2.7.GA.jar:3.2.7.GA] at org.jboss.cache.loader.JDBCCacheLoader.start(JDBCCacheLoader.java:396) ~[jbosscache-core-3.2.7.GA.jar:3.2.7.GA] at org.exoplatform.services.jcr.impl.core.lock.jbosscache.ControllerCacheLoader.start(ControllerCacheLoader.java:312) ~[exo.jcr.component.core-1.15.8-GA-SNAPSHOT.jar:1.15.8-GA-SNAPSHOT] at org.jboss.cache.loader.CacheLoaderManager.startCacheLoader(CacheLoaderManager.java:464) ~[jbosscache-core-3.2.7.GA.jar:3.2.7.GA] {code} NB: The db schema has been created using the next command: {code} CREATE DATABASE plf_jcr_utf8 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_bin; {code} To make Gatein Portal work with MySQL in UTF-8, we need [JCR-2312|https://jira.exoplatform.org/browse/JCR-2312] and add new parameter introduced from JCR issue in the configuration of the lock manager which is infinispan-cl-cache.jdbc.dialect in case of infinispan and jbosscache-cl-cache.jdbc.dialect in case of JBC.